EAST TIMOR: Massacre grave site to be excavated

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Updated February 18, 2008 22:03:03

A mass grave allegedly used to bury hundreds of East Timorese killed by Indonesian troops in 1991 is to be opened next month. A team of Australian forensic scientists will be led to the site where locals believe the bodies of between 200 and 400 people killed in the Santa Cruz massacre were quickly buried.

Presenter: Karon Snowdon
Speakers: Dr Soren Blau, Forensic Anthropologist at the Victorian Institutue of Forensic Medicine

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